G B Piranesi

Italian

(1720 - 1778)

Venetian architect, etcher, designer, archaeologist, restorer and dealer in antiques, champion of the Roman versus Greek art and architecture.

Piranesi had an electrifying effect on contemporary taste, architecture and decorative arts, nowhere more so than in Great Britain. He was the greatest single influence on the architect Robert Adams. His visionary melodramatic etchings of prisons, growing out of his early training in scenography captured the imagination of a younger generation.

Born to a family of Master builders and hydraulic engineers, Piranesi was trained in architecture and stage design, which echoes in his evident ability to produce such detailed and intricate work on a grand scale in the media of etchings and engravings.

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